Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bless the Prince of Wales' came to a premature end, and before the intentional humor of the incident had been completely realized, H. R. H. again raised the gassoon to his lips. And this time there emerged the strains of another song that had been sung to him on countless occasions, usually as a complement of the first: 'For he's a jolly good fellow...
...Spokane Spokesman-Review comes out of the west long enough to remark that college funny magazines are pathetic objects; their humor, if it may be called such, is execrable in its stupidity--and this in spite of the face that the best professional humorists in America are college men who received their training while on scholastic publications. But when one realizes that collegiate humor is not confined to undergraduates but is typical of many classes of America, the Spokesman-Review's condemnation loses validity. Mr. Pickwick differs from Corey Ford and Crunkshank from John Held; each is admirable...
...betters is edifying but to express one's own personality is more amusing. Ring Lardner can convulse It is readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear...
...qualities are characteristic of Moliere as a playwright, his humor and his common sense. In fact he was essentially a bourgeois humorist writing comedies more or less classical in form but full of a sane and vivacious wit not found in appreciable amounts in his two great contemporaries...
...majority of American magazines" TIME will leave the responsibility of supplying the U. S. with columns of humor. Extracts from "Jest Around the Corner...